Programs & Services

Therapeutic Recreation Services

This service supports people who have physical, mental, social, and emotional limitations that affect their ability to engage in meaningful recreation and leisure experiences by assessing past, present and future interests, abilities and strengths and providing programs that promote wellness and reduce or eliminate barriers preventing a meaningful and healthly leisure lifestyle.

Therapeutic recreation is important to a person’s quality of life. With this in mind, this service:

uses recreation and leisure as the primary modality to improve, maintain or prevent decline of physicial, social, cognitive, and emotional health

interventions are enjoyable, meaningful, focused and based on individual preferences, values and strenghts

strives to remove barriers to recreation and leisure participation

enables clients to continue to pursue their recreational and leisure interests/activities

Service is targeted primarily for residents residing in continuing care and acute care patients waiting placement; otherwise, it is only available on a consultative basis for individuals in the communities who require this service due to medical reasons.